Knox County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. State v. Elizabeth Pryor
One of the old court cases that came out of Knox County was filed in October 1834 against Elizabeth Pryor. She’s referred to as Mrs. Pryor in the documents. I don’t know who she was married to or if she was a widow at the time. She was charged with running a “tippling without a license.”
Now I do have my suspicions. I suspect she was kin to William Pryor because Allen Perry was her security and his name shows up in the case of the State vs. William Pryor and Pryor Nance (1836).
It’s a rather short case document filed against Mrs. Pryor. Her conviction reads
…unlawfully kept a tippling house an sell and retail spiritous liquors by a less quantity than a quart to Joel Williams and divers other persons… without having first obtained a license.
William Huson (or Huston?) was the informant.
The members of the jury were
Samuel Stirling, foreman
William McLemore
Samuel R. King
Robert Childers
Martin Kirkpatrick
Young (or James) Edmundson
Harvey Walker
DD Deust
William Hussen
John Karns (or Korns)
Samuel Catrell
William McBoth (McBooth?)
DL Dearmond
